posted on Feb, 14 2008 @ 12:35 PM
This does sound allot like a satellite decay.
Did all the objects follow a similar/the same path? If so, then you can almost certainly discount a meteor/meteors. If an individual object took more
than 1 minute to cross the sky, then you can be certain that it was man made. Meteors are faster than satellites, usually by a fairly wide margin.
What is unusual, is that the entire event took 30 minutes. If this is the case, then whatever re-entered must have broken up some time before hand.
I've never heard of a satellite doing this personally, but it is possible. My guess would be a self-destruct, and that would lead me to believe that
this was a spy-satellite.
Consider the following speculation: During the Cold War, the Russians were trying to match the US in terms of spying power, in a tit-for-tat manner.
We know that the US has a spy-satellite that is due to decay soon, so it would be no surprise that the Russians' had put one up at around the same
time, and due to the technology being similar, they would be expected to last about the same time. This could also explain why there has been no
announcement.
I'm also surprised that no one else has reported this decay. They are visible for hundreds of miles in all directions, so someone else in Europe
should have seen this. I'll be keeping an eye out for anything that makes the net.